What Does 1 Chronicles 25:23 Mean in the King James?

The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:23 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The count names Hananiah, whose name means “Yah has shown favor,” so the numbered place carries a message of favor within it.

THE MEANING

Here, the sixteenth place belongs to Hananiah, and the count includes his sons and brothers as twelve. His name means “Yah has shown favor,” holding personal meaning within an ordered list.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A numbered place is anonymous and carries no meaning of its own.

THE ROOT

חֲנַנְיָה

Ḥănanyāh

GROWS FROM

חנן

ḥ-n-n

To show favor, be gracious.

Hananiah joins this root of favor to Yah’s name: “Yah has shown favor.” The name makes favor part of the person named, even as the verse places him within a count.

ALSO GROWS

Favor: Favor or gracious regard.

חֵן

This branch shares the root in Hananiah’s name, showing the favor carried in the name as a word in its own right.

Gracious: Gracious; showing favor.

חַנּוּן

This branch describes the nature expressed in Hananiah’s name: favor shown, not merely counted.

THE PATTERN

Scripture presents favor as something declared, extended, and received.

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

Exodus 33:19 · KJV“Gracious” translates ⁨חנן⁩ (ḥānan), “to show favor,” the root carried in Hananiah’s name.

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Isaiah 30:18 · KJV“Gracious” again renders ⁨חנן⁩ (ḥānan), making favor an action extended toward you.

And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

John 1:16 · KJVThe verse presents favor as received in abundance, echoing the favor expressed by the root ⁨חנן⁩ (ḥānan).

THE THREAD

And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

Exodus 33:19 · KJV

Hananiah carries the root ⁨חנן⁩ (ḥānan), “to show favor,” heard here in “will be gracious.” The name turns that same root into a compact statement: Yah has shown favor.

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